Last Straw

Nick Clegg and the Lib­eral Demo­crats are as much a part of the estab­lish­ment as the rest of them but they get my vote (my first in a UK elec­tion) for point­ing out the bleedin’ obvious:

Brown sys­tem­at­ic­ally blocked, and per­son­ally blocked, polit­ical reform. I think he is a des­per­ate politi­cian and I just do not believe him.

Brown and Labour, at heart, are author­it­ari­ans and deserve to be thrown on the dustheap. This is the best chance Bri­tain has had for elect­oral reform in a very long time.

Next time maybe Bri­tain will be able to vote in mod­ern demo­cracy under a mod­ern sys­tem of pro­por­tional rep­res­ent­a­tion (not the ruse that Brown was tout­ing, the altern­at­ive vote).